Width Quotes

• Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Assessment, Length, Just Live

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• A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  "Steven Wright Special". Comedy, 1985.

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• The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Dark, Reality, Ideas

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• Width of life is more important than length of life.

  Avicenna

  Length Of Life, Important, Life Is

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• The other day, I was walking my dog around my building . . . on the ledge. Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

  Steven Wright

  Dog, People, Ledges

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• The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.

  Hans Hofmann

  Wall, Ideas, Space

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.60, MIT Press

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• If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.

  Jeremy Narby

  Dna, Cells, Two

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.71, Penguin

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• Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Bodybuilding, Pull Ups, Size

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• According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

  Roy H. Williams

  Ocean, Space, Depth

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• Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.

  Pope Pius XII

  Two, Arms, Knees

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• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, Science, Hair

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• Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.

  Dorian Yates

  Bodybuilding, Make Or Break, Requirements

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• When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted. Because it is impossible to portray the full width and breadth of everything that you are up against.

  Simon Norfolk

  Photography, War, Stupid

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• Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

  Bill Veeck

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fun, Player, Average

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• Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

  Graham Greene

  Time, Space, Strange

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• I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Mean, Names, Depth

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• You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Ocean, Sea

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• Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

  Jay McInerney

  Fear, Thinking, Eyelashes

  Jay McInerney (2009). “How It Ended”, p.28, Vintage

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• The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

  Tom Robbins

  Suicide, Adventure, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.112, Bantam

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• People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Science, Errors

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• No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Flower, Acceptance

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1976). “The necessity of prayer”, Baker Pub Group

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• And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Loss, Grieving

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.151

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• Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

  James Levine

  Cutting, Fate, Reality

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